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The self-destruction of the urban environment is already well under way. The explosion of cities into the countryside, covering it with what Mumford calls "a formless mass of thinly spread semi-urban tissue,'' is directly governed by the imperatives of consumption. The dictatorship of the aut…

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Tourism -- human circulation packaged for consumption, a by-product of the circulation of commodities -- is the opportunity to go and see what has been banalized. The economic organization of travel to different places already guarantees their equivalence. The modernization that has eliminated…